Vol. I.* No. 23
POULTRY SICKNESS
IS OVINGJROUBLE
It Is at Tins Season That Flocks
- Suffer Most from Their
Various Diseases
"‘ISOLATE ALL SICK OMENS”
This is the the season when ,
poultry-raisers have most sick
ness in their flocks. From all i
■over Orange county letters are
coming to R. P. Harris, the
Chapel Hill school's agricultural
expert, describing symptoms
And asking him what to do to
put the fowls in good health.
“Isolate your sick chickens”
—thus can be summed up the
main piece of advice that the
expert has to offer. As soon as
you see one fowl drooping, put
it in a coop or enclosure entire
ly apart from the healthy fowls.
This may prevent an epidemic.
A plenty of good food and
fresh water will end ipany of the
troubles that farmers complain
About. Chickens must not de
pend on scratching for their liv
ing-. Often it is lack of proper
nourishment that makes them
an easy prey to sickness.
Mrs. Jim Merritt, out on Pitts
boro road, has had an unfortu
nate experience lately with her
chickens. When four or five J
died, one was sent to State col
lege for examination. The re- j
port came back that nothing I
could be found wrong with it.
At last the riddle was solved:
it was discovered that the chick
ens had had access to living
maggots, which were probably
bred in decaying meat or some
other decomposing substance..
The fowls that had not yet been
poisoned were promptly placed
where they could not get the
fatal food.
Mrs. Tom Atwater, who lives
beyond Antioch, began to lose:
her turkeys not long ago. They
dropped off one by one, and she
could not diagnose the malady.
Mr. Harris, to whom ‘she ap
pealed, consulted the turkey wiz
ards at State college. They sus
pect the turkeys have contracted
a disease known as “blackhead.”
If so, the best thing to do D to
administer fluid extract of ipe
cac, and this remedy is being
tried. For curative purposes
the prescription is 10 drops per
fowl three times a day for three
days, then twice a day for three
days, then once a day for three
days.
For prevention, administer
orTe teaspoonful of powdered ipe
cac, for each 20 birds, small and
young included, this to be fed to
them in drinking water or in
th» water in which their dough
is mixed.
One thing that is essential at
this season, if the farmer is to
make a success with poultry, is
to rid the flock of old worn-out
fowls. They harbor diseases
that imperil the whole flock.
And they are not worth while as
producers anyway. A hen
oughtn’t to be kept more than
three laying seasons at most,
and the heavier breeds not. more
than two. ‘
Mrs. Paul Lloyd’s chickens
have been suffering from the
chicken pox, and Mrs. W, I.
Suitt of Orange Grove fears that
h£r flock of turkeys have con
>, graded cholera. Mr. Harris is
working with thertT to try to find
the cure.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Chapel Hill Chaff |
Clyde Andrews is an enthusi
astic member of Chapel Hill’s
volunteer fire company. The
other day I was asking him
about the preparations for his
sister’s wedding September 5.
He named several persons who!
were to figure in it—the best
man, ueffiers, and so on—but he
did not mention himself.
“Where do you come in?” I in
quired. He replied: “Oh, if the '
house catches fire I’m going to 1
put the fire out.” ' ’ *,
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An echo of the Weekly’s re
cent remarks on pajamas and
nightshirts comes from New 1
York. “It has come to my atten
tion,” writes Alfred W. Hay
wood, graduate of the Univer
sity and former resident of Haw
River and Raleigh, “that in
your issue July 5, I am classed
with the extinct mastodon, pter
odactyl and icthyosaurus be
cause of the allegation that,
with the exception of Dr. Mac-
Nider and Prof. Collier Cobb,
two gentlemen of known dis- j
cemment, I am the only person
who continues to wear night
shirts. While it is true that for
a long time after the introduc
tion of the now all-prevalent pa
jamas I did remain constant to
the comfortable and matchless
form of nigHt attire to which
; you refer, I was unwillingly
j compelled several years ago to j
! abandon it, largely because of
the deplorable shortage of the
article. Much distress has been
thereby caused to me and others
of its adherents who admire it
! for its rest-giving qualities.
While my girth is not yet large,
I have never cared for the tight-
J ly bound waist. lam willing/to |
join Dr. MacNider and Prof.
Cobb any time in a crusade for
the revival of the nightshirt.”
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The town took on a lonesome *
I look toward the end of last week
’ because of the melting away, at
the end of the first Summer
i School term, of hundreds of
women students, But a new
fiock are assembling for the sec
ond term, and again the neigh
borhood of the postoffice, at
nightfall, becomes colorful and
gay.
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I
I was much pleased the other
afternoon to see our portly
health officer, Dr. Nathan, enter
the Carri>oro s\vhnming pool.
When he leapt into the water, a
tidal wave surged against each
of the pool’s four sides with such
force that I feared for the con-
icrete.
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I love the old Mangtnn place
at the corner of Rosemary street
and Hillsboro road. Here is the
old Chapel Hill of my
unchanged. I give thanks that
the board fence has not been re
placed by any barrier more upr
to-date. When it was mended
i not long ago it was mended in
such a manner that its aspect
was altered hardly at all. The
old well back of the house re
i i mains, even though it is not
used. In the springtime the
■ ground under the oaks is still
i beautifully blue with millions of
i periwinkles, and now in midsum
mer the crape myrtle is a burst
,| of glory. And in a little while
: will come the scuppernongs that
. Miss Ettie, pxaise.be to heaven,
i always willingly turns her
1 friends loose upon.
(Continued on Page 4)
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 2,1923
ORANGE QiUROrS.
109THB1RTHDAY
Big “Homecoming” at the Fiums
Institution North of Chapel Hill;
f More than 250 Present
CAMPAIGN FOR NEW BUILDING
Orange church, three miles or
so north of Chapel Hill, cele
brated its 109th birthday Sun
day. Not only the Methodists
who make / up the congregation
came, but people of all denomina
tions from miles around. There
were between 250 and 300 pres
ent
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It was called a “homecoming”
and was of unusual importance
because it marked' the launch
ing of a campaign for a new
building. The plan is to move
the present one a little farther
back from the “old Hillsboro
road,” tvhigh it faces, and make
it an annex the new structure.
Orange church is a famous
institution in the county. "Built
i in 1814, through all these years
it has stood in its grove of splen
did, stately trees, a center of
both religious and social life in
the country between here and
Hillsboro. Os course the house
itself has suffered from the pas
sage of time, and the congrega
, tion, much as they -love it, -know
that they must have a new
ihomei They are going to pur
sue their campaign vigorously
until it reaches a successful con
clusion. The revival that is
now in progress will help to
stimulate interest.
Rev. J. C. Autrey, whose cir
cuit includes Orange church, was
one of the principal speakers
I Sunday. Others were H. W.
Odum and F. F. Bradshaw of
Chapel Hill and Mr. Shaw of
Pittsboro. Among Jthe pronii
jnent families represented in the
j assemblage ware the Clay Ho
i giirts, the Maddrys, and several
clans of Blackwoods. Mr. and
| Mrs. R. P. Harris also attended.
Will Freeland, a prominent
member of the congregation, re
.eeivtd several subscriptions to
the fund for the new church.
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FIREMEN FEAST AUGUST 7
A monster barbecue will be
•-'t-rvefl next Tuesday, August 7,
on the grounds of the graded
school, a treat by the fire com
-7 pa. l.v lu re to ihefiremen who are
to come to Durham from all
»
over the State for the' annual
firemen’s tournament. Early in
the morning Chief Foister is t»>
run the truck over from here
w th his fellow delegates and
the mayor and the board of
aldermen to take part in the pa
rade through Durham streets.
At about noon the whole crowd,
■ :< pec-ted to number nearly 50',
v’l! be brought to Hill in
* automobiles loaned by the'citi
zens of Durham. Gooch is to
•e.-ve the barbecue. /
J. B LINKER JR., ARRIVES
A son, J. Burton, Jr., was born
..Saturday to I#r. and Mrs. J.
Burton L in» Mr. Linker was
1 an instructor in mathematics in
, the University for three years.
He is now studying at John
i' Hopkins hut will return to the
faculty here.
Miss Mae Culpepper ?nd Mis'
Winifred Potts left Tuesday Gy
automobile for Fayetteville, Ga
Were Girls Here in 1865,
Now Revisit Chapel Hill
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Misses. Margaret and Katharine Hilliard, Who Were Children
in the Village during Civil War, Tell of the Old Times
Miss Margaret Burgwyn Hil
liard and Miss Katharine Hil- <
liard, who were children in 1
Chapel Hill during the Civil,
War, came back Saturday. They
were traveling in a Ford car,
which they themselves drove,
from ‘Oxford to Blowing Rock,
and stopped over for the day
with’ Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Law
rence. ,
In the rectory sitting room,
on the same spot of ground
where they used to live when i
their father was Chapel Hill’s
Episcopal clergyman, they talked j
of the village of sixty years ago.
“I remember when Sherman’s ,
army, or part of it, marched
through,” said Miss Margaret.
“The troops camped in the field
back of this lot. \The war wasn’t
quite over then, but there was
some sort of a truce and we did
not' suffer from the looting that
had gone on in other towns alopg
the line of march. A northern
soldier was put in our house as
a guard. My father wasn’t here
then, being in Virginia as a
chaplain with General Lee, and
I we were scared of the soldier.
“The Confederates, Johnston’s
men, had come through only a
few days ■ before, and we had
j stood along the road side and
given theni pretty nearly all the
bread and meat we had, so there
was not much left when the en
emy arrived.
“Dr. Mallett lived next door to
I im. Before Sherman’s men came
! here he got a lot of valuables to
gether-tableware, and watches,
and jewelry, and some money—
and buried them in a box. The
j soldiers went about sticking
their bayonets in the ground and
they found the box. Dr. Mallett
posted a sign that no questions
! would be asked about the money
f the watches were returned.
He got them back at last by
paying for them. My mother
hail had him hide her watch with
the others and that was recov
ered too.
“Later we were in such a
plight that we had to turn
everything that was not neces
sary into money with which to
buy food and clothes, and the
G arl - Wiegand Marries-
Climax of a Summer Romance}
Bride it Miff Wooten
Carl Wiegand and Miss Lucy
Woot< n went over to Raleigh
Monday and got married in the
Episcopal church of the Good
Shepherd.
Mr.. Wiegand a practicing
attorney in tthapel Hill and was
recently a candidate for mayor.
Before he settled down here as
a lawyer he was an instructor
in the University’s music de
•srtrrcnt and is an accomplished
violinist. . .
The couple made each other’s
acquaintance this summer while
Miss Wooten was here as a stu
dent. She is from Covington,
-Georgia, and has been a teach
er for one year.
She had a room at Mrs. S. W.
Bynum’s on Henderson street,
and Miss Margaret Cheek of
Sparta was her roommate. It
was through Paul. Parsons, a
, friend of Miss Cheek’s, that Mr.
watch was sent to Raleigh to be \
offered for sale. On Christmas !
eve there was a knock at our
door, and when my mother
opened it, a little package was
put in her hands by a messenger j
who had come over by stage
from Durham.
“In it was her watch sur
rounded by the price of it in
gold dollars. There was a note,
unsigned, saying that a friend
of her father’s wanted her to
accept the watch as a Christ
mas gift. We were never told
who the giver was.”
,The father of the Misses Hil
liard was a Massachusetts man,
a graduate of Harvard in the
class of 1852. In that year he
came to Lake Scuppemong in I
eastern North Carolina to visit
a classmate, and the following
year returned as a tutor. He
married the daughter of Rev.
Samuel Iredell Johnston of
Edenton, and moved to Chapel
Hill at about the time of the
outbreak of the war to take \
charge of the Episcopal parish.
“I was four years old and my
sister five when the war ended,”
said Miss Katharine. “I often
wonder why it is that memories
of Chapel Hill remain. with us
so clearlv. I think it must be
i
because there was so much ex
citement in those days- that im
presions were deeper than they
would be in a quiet time. We
were always hearing about the
war. Soldiers were going off and
coming back. There was a great
deal of talk about the difficulty
of getting coffee and other arti
cles of food.”
They were much interested to
hear tJiat Hoke Smith had
passed through town a few days
before. ’
“I remember him particularly
well,” said Miss Katharine, “be
cause he lived near us and we
caught the whooping cough
from him.”
Miss Katharine Hilliard is a
teacher ina high school in Oma
ha, Nebraska. It is one of the
largest high schools in the
world, having an enrollment of
2,G00.
Miss Margaret lives in Ox
ford.
-•UViegarid— first—'«ame—4o—-know-
j Miss Wooten. Their romance
(developed rapidly. Mrs. Bynum
says she began to have suspi
cions of something serious a
'few days ago, but the marriage
'came as a surprise to her.
FOWLER BUYS MODEL MARKET
John T. Fowler, whose flour
v.ifi in Carrboro burned several
1 veers ago, has bought the Mod
-1 ! Market. The late Samuel
' -n. kard, who owned the estab
: hiriC.it, provided in his will
hat it be sold, and it was auc
' icnod off. James Sparrow wan
the purchaser at the auction,
s nit sold his. bid. Mr. Fowler has
' aken into partnership with him
• id Sparrow and Tom Lloyd.
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■ j Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Braune
1 V-ft last week in their car for
Brevard. After visiting their
'uughter in Camp Rockbrook,
’ they went on to Alabama to see
Mr. Braune’s family: Their car
t yvas equipped with tents and all
, | ampirig paraphernalia.
$1.50 c Year in Advance. sc. i Copy
TOWN’S TAX RATE
—DROPSJO CENTS
Bit Canty’s Afances to sl.lO,
Si Total Goes w 10 pints
to $2.42 1-2
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TAXABLE PROPERTY, *2,350,000
The tax rate of the town of
Chapel HilP has been fixed by
the board of aldermen at $1.32-
1-2, as against $1.42 1-2 last
year.
But the county commission
ers recently increased the coun
ty rate from 90 cents to sl.lO.
The combined town and county
rate, therefore, will be $2.42 1-2
on each SIOO of assessed valua
tion, as compared with $2.32 1-2
in 1922.
- The town rate is made up as
follows: for general expenses
(police, health, fire, streets,
etc.), 45 cents, a decrease of 5
cents from last year; debt ser
vice, 12 1-2 cents, no change;
school operation, 50 cents l no
change; school debt service, 25
cents, a decrease of 5 cents.
It is the increase in the total
assessed valuation of property
in Chapel Hill that has made
possible a cut in the rate here.
The amount on. the books last
year was about $2,000,000.
Now it is about $2,350,000. The
increase of $350,000 is due to
.(improvements amounting to
SIIO,OOO and to changes in as
sessments of $240,000.
There is much construction
going on now, but since May 1
is the listing date, this does not
get upon the books until a year
her.ee. Os course the town gets
no tax revenue from the exten
. sive building on campus,
since all University property is
exempt. However, there is
great indirect benefit to Chapel
Hill, because the University’s
expansion makes all town prop
erty grow in value.
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MISS WARD GOES NORTH
4b
Miss Laura Ward, who is in
• harge of the drygoods depart
ment of Andrews store, is mak
ing a trip to New York with Mr.
Andrews to select the fall stock.
Miss Laura has been identified
with him for between twenty
and twenty-five years and for a
long time has been charged with
housing the dresses and other
articles of clothing which the
establish me nf" offers’ - for ~ sale.
Not long ago a New 1 oflk mer
chant said to Mr. Andrews: “I
have buyers from all over the
Uni'ed States coming to my
p'ace here, and Miss Ward who
.-erui ants you is about the best
judge of materials I’ve found
among ’em.”
A MOUSE FOR MISS VENABLE
1
A free gift of a mouse was
made to ‘Miss Frances Venable
by the postoffice the other day.
But she refused to accept it and
nobody knows where it is now.
When she drew from her lock
box a rolled-up newspaper and
shook it open, the mouse jumped
to the floor at her feet. She
went out of one door of the lob
by and the mouse went out of
the other.
Mrs. E. E. Rives is with her
grandmother, Mrs. F. A. Tank
ersley. Mr. Rives, known to the
University as “Scrubby,” has
gone Lack to Greensboro.